Game Courier supports many different games. Here is one picked at random:
Dragonet Chess - The Dragonet flies to any square queenwise, captures piece behind landing square (with zrf).

Play Shogi (Japanese Chess) online with Game Courier

Game Courier let's you play Shogi online with a variety of graphic options, including both western pieces and Japanese pieces. Some of the options are provided below, and further customization is available, including more board images and more piece sets. Click on one of the buttons below to begin. Games will normally occur asynchronously with other people online, with Game Courier keeping a record of the game, enforcing the rules, and automating piece captures. Moves can be entered with the mouse without any knowledge of notation.

Shogi
Shogi
Shogi
Shogi
Shogi
Shogi

These presets are new as of November 2010. They are much like the old ones with somes fixes and the ability to ask you when you want to promote a piece. When you have the option to promote but don't indicate the promotion in the move you enter, which will commonly happen when you're using the mouse to enter moves, it will ask you whether you want to promote, then rewrite your move accordingly. Note that the checkered boards display as HTML tables and will use the least bandwidth. The other boards use background images and may be displayed using CSS code, which will reuse the same images, saving bandwidth as long as the images stay in your cache, or as single freshly-created images in either GIF, JPG, or PNG formats. Generally, GIF or JPG will produce images smallest in filesize, and PNG will produce full-color lossless images.

The Symbolic set, the Chess Motif set, and the Japanese font set (seen on the sodalite blue board) are all made by Fergus Duniho, who also created Game Courier and programmed these presets. The Japanese sets seen on the plain blue and plain beige boards are the work of Koma-Shokunin 1, used here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license

Written by Fergus Duniho
WWW Page Created: 23 January 2002. 

/home1/chessvar/public_html/play/pbm/presets/shogi.html
/home1/chessvar/public_html/play/pbmlogs/shogi

Game Courier Logs

Game Courier Logs for Games of Shogi

Click on the above link to view logs of Shogi played on Game Courier.

Credits

Author: Fergus Duniho.

See also

Comments

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This item is a play-by-email page, It belongs to categories: Two dimensional, Oriental It was last modified on: 2010-11-28 Author: Fergus Duniho. Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)
2009-11-08Jose Carrillo Verified as Jose CarrilloNone

Mine went away too.

I change the board pieces and the board type, and suddenly it started working.

Weird...

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2009-11-07Fergus Duniho Verified as Fergus DunihoNoneI had the same problem with my current Shogi game, but it went away when I switched to the table rendering method. I need to look into when I have the time.View [*]
2009-11-07Jose Carrillo Verified as Jose CarrilloNone

Fergus,

I'm playing my first ever Shogi game.

When it's my turn, the pieces are displayed off the center of the squares, shifted half way up, on the middle of the lines above their squares.

When I look at the link for the game to see it (not when it's my turn) the pieces are perfectly in the middle.

My opponent says that he is seeing everything fine.

Any ideas what is wrong?

Jose

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2005-03-10Fergus Duniho Verified as Fergus DunihoNoneI have now darkened the edges of the Motif Shogi pieces, shown in the bottom right image on this page, so that they show up well on the sodalite blue board, shown in the bottom left image on this page. I did this by means of a filter I wrote for darkening greys, where a grey is defined as any pixil whose red, green, and blue values are all equal.View [*]
2005-01-14Fergus Duniho Verified as Fergus DunihoNone

I have updated the Shogi presets to spot check, checkmate, and stalemate, and they can now also enforce the rule against checkmating the King with a Pawn drop. They can also now use aliases for promoted pieces that each equal the label for its unpromoted state with a + sign in front.

To see the code behind this, check out one of the presets, such as this one:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DShogi%26settings%3DJapanese-PNG&submit=Edit

and the include file used for all Shogi presets:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/includes/shogi.txt

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